Support newer openslide-python version that has available whls for newer python versions #7335
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Users installing monai on Python 3.11+ run into issues with the openslide-python version that is strictly specified as 1.1.2. This version of openslide-python was released in September 2020 (over 3 years ago) and only has whls on PyPI up to python 3.10 (see here).
A user running Python 3.11 for instance runs into it trying to build openslide-python 1.1.2 from source and the build fails either due to missing dependencies or possible lack of compatibility.
Line 63 in 90d2acb
Describe the solution you'd like
Support a newer version of openslide-python to improve support of monai on newer versions of python. The latest version of openslide-python is currently 1.3.1 released in October 2023. It has available whl files on PyPI for Python 3.8-3.12 (see here).
Describe alternatives you've considered
Removing the openslide-python dependency entirely from monai could also avoid errors when pip install monai on newer python versions.
Or reduce functionality for certain python versions such that it is only installed for Python versions that have whl files available.
openslide-python==1.1.2;python_version<"3.11"